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Date Posted: 15:12:38 04/16/07 Mon
Author: Marcela
Subject: peer editing
In reply to: Dina Costa 's message, "Re: Task One Group Two" on 18:51:40 04/11/07 Wed

>
>UFMG – FALE
>Academic Writing Skills
>Professor: Adriana Tenuta
>Student: Dina F. Costa
>
>
>
>Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Who is the Monster? The
>Narcissist Creation of the Other
>
>
> In Mary Shelley’s novel, the creature is always
>mentioned as a monster and is also called Monster, but
>he is Victor’s creation and creature. Indeed, the
>creature is not as monstrously bad as his creator but
>he was made to be a reflection of Victor like the
>reflection of Narcissus that led him to his own
>destruction.
> First of all, the creature was abandoned by his
>creator in the very beginning of his existence. This
>abandonment was painful because the creature was led(sp left?)
>alone in the world and without any knowledge of
>mankind. Even though(, X) the creature tries to become a
>social being(, V) (but X) his ugly and fearful figure makes his
>attempts to approach to other people very difficult,
>or better saying, impossible. Those frustrated
>attempts to be among people made the creature hate his
>creator, mainly after finding Victor’s journal of the
>scientific experience in which the creature was made,
>and the creature says:
>‘I sickened as I read. “Hateful day when I received
>life!” I exclaimed in agony. “Accursed creator! Why
>did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned
>from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful
>and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a
>filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very
>resemblance.”’ (pages 125-126)
>
>Even though, he was fulfilled with these sad and
>disgusted feelings, the creature hopes to find a place
>for him among people. (But BW- However,)he is rejected and
>repudiated so he says to Victor:
>“Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy
>Adam but I am rather the fallen angel, (…) Everywhere
>I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably
>excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a
>fiend.” (page 96)
>These quotations reinforce the idea that the creature
>was not bad but his experiences led(V to) him hate his
>creator who was really bad to him.
> Another important aspect of the novel is the
>matter of narcissism. Freud mentions in his
>Twenty-sixth Lecture that the choice of the object is
>made by replacing the subject’s own ego by another one
>that is as similar as possible. When Victor starts his
>experiments, he closes himself and does not receive
>anybody, including his best friend Clerval. How to
>find someone similar to himself? Victor could answer
>this question saying that the best way to achieve this
>goal would be by retiring yourself from society and by
>creating someone, and he did so.
> In the myth of Narcissus, he falls in love with his
>own reflection in the water surface but to realize
>this love he destroys himself drowning into the water.
>In fact, Victor’s creation is a reflection of him(V self) ;
>afterwards he realizes that he has to destroy the
>creature before the creature destroys him. In other
>words, Victor rejects his creation, and all the
>suffering caused by this rejection led the creature to
>destroy his creator exactly like the myth of Narcissus
>in which both (X the) reflected and the reflection vanish.
>Victor is destroyed but the creature was destroyed too.
>
>Bibliography
>FREUD, Sigmund. Standard Edition, volume XIV.
>SHELLEY, Mary. Frankenstein: or the modern Prometheus.
>Penguin Popular Classics. England, 1994.

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